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1 vulnerability found for Crypt::SecretBuffer by NERDVANA
CVE-2026-5086 (GCVE-0-2026-5086)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-13 22:54
Modified
2026-04-15 20:03
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy
Summary
Crypt::SecretBuffer versions before 0.019 for Perl is suseceptible to timing attacks.
For example, if Crypt::SecretBuffer was used to store and compare plaintext passwords, then discrepencies in timing could be used to guess the secret password.
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NERDVANA | Crypt::SecretBuffer |
Version: 0 < 0.019 |
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